Posted on 04/16/2007 7:14:16 AM PDT by LexHoskin
Gunman on Campus; Stay inside your building, away from windows; Shooting incident at West Ambler Johnston Hall
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No it is not a 'code'. Unlike the rest of the world, the word oriental somehow became offfensive here in the United States.
In the rest of the world, the word "oriental" is used for east asians (Chinese, Koreans, Vietnamese, etc) and "asian" is used for what we refer to as "middle eastern".
The BBC will refer to a korean as "oriental" and to an Iraqi as "asian".
The MySpace name (Morva?) was the name of the fugitive they were chasing in the Blacksburg area last fall. It happened around the campus and he was caught.
Thanks for the info! Hope he stays safe!!!
Let’s just end this stupid conversation now. I can go back to one of your posts, I’m sure, and pick one word out and twist it to make it sound like you were saying something you weren’t. Isn’t the more significant point that at least 32 people are dead? At least I wasn’t pretending to speak for them.
Wow - thanks for that - nothing about a girlfriend, huh?
Well, right now they are not under fire and a fireman's carry could severely aggravate torso wounds.
Does anyone know what kind of fire arm was used? I’m thinking of buying one for home protection and what ever this guy used sounds like the perfect weapon for me. Of course mine would be used for defense.
Stop posting that photo and stop making that claim.
Go right ahead believing that fellow members of Western Civilization are “puppet masters” and are to blame. That is exactly what the enemies of Western Civilization want you to beleive. They want to turn you into a revolutionary against what little is left of Western power.
And the Utah mall murderer. You might even call it a pattern.
I read they had athe lockdown, temporarily lifted it, more were shot at that point
A list of deadly campus shootings
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070416/ap_on_re_us/college_shootings_list_1
Full Coverage: Virginia Tech Shootings
http://news.yahoo.com/fc/US/Virginia_Tech_Shootings
What about this person?:
June 29th, 2006
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Police charged a 21-year-old Virginia Tech student with planting a homemade bomb in an apartment and then falsely telling police that a second individual was involved in the construction of explosives.
Janaka Nuwan Kumara Siriwardena, a sophomore computer science major from Sterling, VA., is being held without bond in the Montgomery County Jail for allegedly planting a bomb and telling police a different person was responsible for the explosive.
In a news release, Captain Kim S. Crannis of the Blacksburg Police Department reported that on Thursday, June 22, authorities charged Siriwardena with burglary, manufacturing an explosive device, cocaine possession and making a false report to a law enforcement officer.
Authorities stated that on June 21, the Blacksburg police received information from an informant about the manufacturing of explosives in an OakBridge Homes apartment building.
According to the search warrant for the residence, the informant was in apartment three on 825 Orchard Street where he claimed to observe a subject pour powder into a cylindrical pipe. The informant described the object as “like a pipe bomb.”
The informant told the police that the subject then poured what appeared to be BBs into the pipe and stated “this is gonna be fun.” According to the informant, other pipe-like items that could be used to make explosives were also in the apartment.
After obtaining a search warrant, members of the Blacksburg Police, the Virginia State Police and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms raided the apartment at 4:30 a.m. Thursday and discovered an explosive device containing gunpowder and ball bearings beneath the window.
The Virginia State Police Bomb Squad rendered the explosive safe, and no one was injured.
Of the three roommates living in the apartment, Muhammad Mansoor, an electrical engineering major, was subletting and had only lived in the building for one month. He did not know the suspect personally.
The owner of the housing complex, OakBridge Townhomes, refused comment.
Interviews with the three roommates and an investigation determined that the explosive device and a powder substance believed to be cocaine were planted in the apartment.
“I would not have expected this kind of thing from that kind of a person,” said Siriwardena’s friend Aaron Hope, a senior psychology and philosophy double major. “I find it hard to believe.”
You sprout the same emotionally driven claims of a common gun grabber. That's what I replied to.
The DC Sniper was a Muslim convert, so anything need to be specific with lone gunman theory as to be connected to the ROP?
Lots of non-Islamic terrorism all over the world...Northern Ireland, the Basque country, the US during the 60s and 70s, various communist movements all over the world, the bomb throwing in the US ca. 1880s, almost every separatist movement since the invention of gunpowder...
but it is true that terror is often used by Islamic groups. But not exclusively.
Even the Zionists in pre-modern Israel Palestine had people who were using terrorist tactics against the British.
BTW, today on Court TV (6:30 EST), there is a segment on Forensic Files about the 1984 terrorist attack by a group mostly from India - "Bio-attack: The Oregon Cult Poisonings."
Thanks for the report, VM.
Anthing you can tell us, we appreciate.
I remember you had the information first about how many victims there were.
Yes..the computer is slow.
Well, he was smart enough to manage to kill 32 people!
Amen.
Cowards, which is what these animals are, generally aren’t going to walk into a situation where they are out gunned and start something. They like the so called “soft targets”.
Most 9mm semi automatics now have about 16 round magazines. It would take a take a good shooter less than 16 seconds to empty 16 rounds. (ie you can shoot as fast as it takes you to aim and pull the trigger). It takes about 2 seconds to eject and replace an empty magazine. Thus he probably came with a half dozen or more full magazines. Drop the empties, replace, and continue to fire.
May God have mercy on the victims.
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